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 phenomena. He also lectured on spiritualism. On his betrothal to a lady of the noble family of Aksakoff the emperor gave him a magnificent sapphire ring set in diamonds. On his return to England in March he submitted at the house of Mr. Crookes, F.R.S., to a series of experiments designed to test his pretensions. The experiments were conducted in full light. Mr. Crookes was convinced of their genuineness, and published accounts of them in the ‘Quarterly Journal of Science’ for 1871 and 1874, reprinted as ‘Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism,’ London, 1874, 8vo. Home's second marriage took place at Paris in October 1871. After a brief visit to England he returned with Madame Home to St. Petersburg, where Professor Von Boutlerow conducted a series of experiments confirming the results reached by Mr. Crookes. An article descriptive of two of Home's London séances appeared under the heading ‘Spiritualism and Science’ in the ‘Times’ of 20 Dec. 1872, and led to a long correspondence. The same year Home published a second volume of ‘Incidents in my Life,’ bringing the materials for his biography down to the close of the Lyon case.

His health began to fail in 1872. His last years were spent abroad, chiefly at Nice and Switzerland. In 1877 he published ‘Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism,’ London, 8vo, a work partly historical, partly expository, and partly polemical, in which Howitt collaborated. He died at Auteuil on 21 June 1886, and was buried at St. Germain-en-Laye. Home had issue by his first wife a son, by his second a daughter, who died in infancy. In person he was tall and slim, with somewhat irregular features and blue eyes. Home was not a professional medium, and scrupulously abstained from taking money for his séances. His history presents a curious and as yet unsolved problem.

 HOME, EVERARD (1756–1832), surgeon, born at Hull on 6 May 1756, was son of Robert Boyne Home, army surgeon, afterwards of Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire, and of Mary, daughter of Colonel Hutchinson. He became a king's scholar of Westminster School in 1770, and was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1773, but almost immediately resigned his scholarship to become a pupil of John Hunter, the surgeon, who married his only sister (, Alumni Westmonast. pp. 397–8;, Life of Hunter, pp. xxi, xxii). Home assisted Hunter in many of his anatomical investigations, studying under him at St. George's Hospital, and in the autumn of 1776 he partly described Hunter's collection. Having qualified at Surgeons' Hall in 1778, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the newly finished naval hospital at Plymouth. Later he went to Jamaica as staff surgeon, whence he returned in August 1784, and went on half-pay. He resumed his assistancy with Hunter, was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1785, and in 1788 received the gold medal of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense (a society founded by Hunter and Dr. [q. v.]) for a dissertation on the ‘Properties of Pus.’ In 1786 he took charge of Hunter's patients while Hunter was ill, and lived in Hunter's house from this time till 1792, when he married and removed to a few doors off. In 1787 Home was appointed assistant surgeon under Hunter at St. George's Hospital. In 1790–1 he lectured for Hunter, and in 1792 definitely succeeded him as lecturer on anatomy. He was elected surgeon to St. George's Hospital after Hunter's death in 1793, was joint executor with Dr. Baillie to Hunter's will, and in 1793–4 he saw through the press Hunter's important work ‘On the Blood, Inflammation, and Gunshot Wounds.’ Home obtained a large surgical practice, and became keeper and afterwards one of the trustees of the Hunterian collection (1817). He was chosen a member of the court of assistants of the College of Surgeons in 1801, member of the court of examiners in 1809, master in 1813, and president (the first who bore that title) in 1821. From 1804 to 1813, and again in 1821, he was professor of anatomy and surgery at the college, but did not lecture till 1810, giving another course in 1813; in 1814 and in 1822 he was Hunterian orator. His influence at the college as Hunter's brother-in-law and executor was great, and not always beneficial. By patent dated 2 Jan. 1813 he was made a baronet, and in 1808 sergeant-surgeon to the king. He was in 1821 made surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, where he died at his official residence on 31 Aug. 1832, aged 76. He had resigned the surgeoncy to St. George's Hospital in 1827, and was made consulting surgeon.

Home married in 1792 Jane, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Tunstall, and widow of Stephen Thompson, by whom he had two sons, Sir James Everard Home, born in 1798, afterwards captain R.N., and William Archibald Home, and four daughters. His portrait was painted by Sir W. Beechey, from which, presumably, an engraving is given, prefixed